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sounds like you need a more challenging job? but you also need to pay the bills. the age old conundrum. we do things we dont like ... to survive. and then in middle-age we hit a crisis, and try to pretend we can go back and re-live our youth/re-write history to be one in which we only did things we wanted to do (and succeeded at them, by the way). that is, unless you are one of those fortunate people who somehow landed in a profession/job they love.
I have a friend who is convinced that she should be working in a large corporate office in the city, while in reality, she works in a (very) small suburb office in ....the suburbs. having been there/done that, i tell her its not all that - she doesnt believe me. please - i want to work in a small suburb office, but i can only seem to land jobs in large corporations in the city. you know what i say to her? go do it. honestly, i hope she does, and im afraid that if she doesnt do it, when she's about 45 years old, she's going to start believing that life cheated her.
this is my advice to anyone who hates their job/life, or thinks that some other job/life is the job they should have:
instead of whining about it, you need to go do/live it. you may love it, but HEY - you may find in doing/living it that you absolutely HATE it, and then you can stop complaining about what live DIDNT give you, and start being thankful for what it did give you. if nothing else, youll KNOW YOURSELF.
no. you know what i think? if a person COULD do what they dream, they WOULD do what they dream. We lie to ourselves that life, or someone, is holding us back, but in reality, if we tried our hardest, we might find that we ...simply didnt make the cut ....just arent good enough.....truly dont have what it takes.
but that's not something we want to know, is it?
Hey. I speak of myself as well. I have a short list of career goals I dream about and people tell me Im really good at and that I should do, but I wont because I'm afraid....of failure. That's MY problem, and I admit it to myself. So when I'm stuck in a job I hate, I have to blame myself. It's kinda like Sliding Doors - or whatever movie Gwyneth Paltrow was in where it showed two separate tracks her life took from one moment.
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